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If you want to know about the top five data breaches, today is your lucky day.

1. About a Billion Users of Yahoo Accounts Were Hacked in 2013

The hack severely affected a lot of people in 2013, hacking one out of seven to eight people in this world. Truly, the hackers have taken away almost every little piece of the user’s information, who were also seen as the same hackers who hacked accounts before 2013.

All the important information of the users, such birthdays, addresses, and email addresses, were accessed by the hackers.

2. The FriendFinder Hack in 2016

According to the statistics, there were 412 million hacked accounts in FriendFinder. The users experiences such a great danger because of the hacking.

FriendFinder is known as dating website just like Penthouse.com, which you will know why it is very frustrating for the users that they have been hacked.

This was similar to the hack that happened to Ashley Madison, also a dating website, wherein the hackers have published a data of analysis. Husbands and spouses were given the access of opening the accounts of their loved ones in order to see what have they been doing all this time.

3. The Hacking of Dropbox in 2012

If you think that big companies cannot be hacked, you are totally wrong.

The hackers even demanded for ransom through Bitcoin just to give back the access. Even the online new website called Vocativ was offered by a user named “double flag.”

They gave Vocativ a big story by informing them that they were holding 68 million accounts from DropBox as of that moment. They need 2 Bitcoin in order to give back those accounts.

2 Bitcoin is equal to $1,100.

4. Target was Hacked in 2013

Target was on of the biggest online stores which was greatly affected after the hacking in December 2013.

There were 110 million of records that were accessed by the hackers.

According to the records, there were 40 million debit card and credit card numbers exposed to the hackers. You can imagine how angry people are during those days, especially when Christmas was almost near that time.

It did not even ended in 2013, making other people worried about the 70 million customers of Target being hacked by the same hackers, who took their personal information such as their full names, phone numbers, and addresses, which already happened in January 2014. The security of DropBox was even speculated by people after that. It is because people were wondering why the disclosure of the full reach of data was already so late.

5. The Hacking of LinkedIn in 2012

The hacking of a personal life and professional life has no difference.

There were 165 LinkedIn accounts that were placed on hot water through this data breach. It was first reported that there were only 6.5 million hacked accounts, which eventually grew after that.

There were also damages found on the passwords of the accounts. It became very hard for LinkedIn and the users to fix this very big problem.